Legal Resources

Attorney Jesus Reyes discusses the new 2022 MPP protocols and extensions to respond to USCIS requests on the program Actualidad Migratoria.

The Senate’s top advisor refuses to include legalization of undocumented immigrants in the “Reconciliation” package. Attorney Elizabeth MacDonough sent her response to Congress and rejects recommending the inclusion in the “Reconciliation” package the path to residency for millions of undocumented immigrants. The office of the Congressional “Parliamentarian” on Sunday rejected a request by Democrats to […]

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami: Accepting donations online at www.ccadm.org United Way of Miami-Dade Operation Helping Hands: The United Way and the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald have activated Operation Helping Hands for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The United Way says all money raised will be used to buy relief items and services […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that applicants for lawful permanent resident status can now apply for a Social Security number (SSN) or replacement card as part of the adjustment of status application process. Previously, such individuals had to apply for an SSN at a Social Security office. Currently, USCIS is revising the Form […]

Settlement approved by the Federal Judge will favor more than 60,000 immigrants for humanitarian reasons. Last Tuesday a Federal Judge approved an agreement to settle a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for denying humanitarian benefits to immigrants who have suffered from domestic violence; the lawsuit had been filed last year […]

In order to deal with the Reconciliation mechanism, it is necessary to begin by saying that for an Immigration Reform bill to be approved in the full U.S. Senate, after approval in the House of Representatives, it is necessary that at least 10 Republican Senators join the 50 Democratic Senators for its approval. So the […]

This Thursday, July 15, the U.S. Department of Justice returned to Immigration Judges the discretionary power to order the Administrative closure of certain Deportation cases so that the undocumented Immigrant has the opportunity to have a legal pathway in obtaining their documents; in this sense, it reversed one of the Trump Administration’s measures issued in […]

From now on, Immigration Judges will be able to cancel or vacate deportation orders on a discretionary basis for aliens who did not appear or did not show up on time for their court dates. Recently the Board of Immigration Appeals (BiA) took up the case of a Guatemalan mother and her son, who had […]

This Friday, June 25, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it will reinstate the “Prosecutorial Discretion” mechanism, which gives ICE immigration prosecutors the power to terminate deportation proceedings. The announced measure is in contrast to the zero tolerance policy implemented by the Trump Administration, which had eliminated it. This announcement is of utmost importance, […]